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Research Article
Vol. 1, Issue 1
Health-worker emigration and the loss of disease control: a coupled workforce-epidemic model with burnout-driven attrition
Nigeria has lost a large share of its health workforce to emigration, and surveys of Nigerian health workers link the wish to emigrate with burnout. This paper couples a treatable infection of SIS type to a health workforce that is trained, practises and emigrates. Treatment capacity is proportional to the practising workforce, and the emigration r...